Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,90 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Water-supply
ISBN :
Author : WWAP
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Water quality management
ISBN : 9231002643
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309179254
This report contains a collection of papers from a workshopâ€"Strengthening Science-Based Decision-Making for Sustainable Management of Scarce Water Resources for Agricultural Production, held in Tunisia. Participants, including scientists, decision makers, representatives of non-profit organizations, and a farmer, came from the United States and several countries in North Africa and the Middle East. The papers examined constraints to agricultural production as it relates to water scarcity; focusing on 1) the state of the science regarding water management for agricultural purposes in the Middle East and North Africa 2) how science can be applied to better manage existing water supplies to optimize the domestic production of food and fiber. The cross-cutting themes of the workshop were the elements or principles of science-based decision making, the role of the scientific community in ensuring that science is an integral part of the decision making process, and ways to improve communications between scientists and decision makers.
Author : Vasileios A. Tzanakakis
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 3039433067
This Book includes selected papers that has been published in the Water journal Special Issue (SI) on Water Supply and Water Scarcity. Moreover, an overview of the SI is included. The papers selected for publication in the SI include review and research papers on water history, on water management issues under water scarcity regimes, on rainwater harvesting, on water quality and degradation, and on climatic variability impacts on water resources. Overall, the issue identify and highlight the main challenges in water sector, and particularly in management and protection of water resources and in use of alternative (non-conventional) water resources, especially in areas with demographic change and climate vulnerability in order to achieve sustainable and secure water supply. Furthermore, general guidelines and possible solutions for an improved and sophisticated water management system are proposed and discussed, such as the adoption of advanced technological solutions and practices that improve water-use efficiency and the use of alternative water resources, to address the growing environmental and health issues and to reduce the emerging conflicts among water users.
Author : American Water Works Association
Publisher : American Water Works Association
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 30,80 MB
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1583216316
In this handbook readers will find industry-approved procedures for water utilities to conduct systemwide water audits to assess real and apparent distribution-system water losses, recover lost revenue, and detect and repair pipe leaks.
Author : Oliver Fritsch
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3039281569
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwaters. This Special Issue contains twelve articles related to the transfer of IWRM policy principles. The articles explore three dimensions of transfer—causes, processes, outcomes—and offer a theoretically inspiring, methodologically rich and geographically diverse engagement with IWRM policy transfer around the globe. As such, they can also productively inform a future research agenda on the ‘dimensional’ aspects of IWRM governance. Regarding the causes, the contributions apply, criticise, extend or revise existing approaches to policy transfer in a water governance context, asking why countries adopt IWRM principles and what mechanisms are in place to understand the adoption of these principles in regional or national contexts. When it comes to processes, articles in this Special Issue unpack the process of policy transfer and implementation and explore how IWRM principles travel across borders, levels and scales. Finally, this set of papers looks into the outcomes of IWRM policy transfer and asks what impact IWRM principles, once implemented, gave on domestic water governance, water quality and water supply, and how effective IWRM is at addressing critical water issues in specific countries.
Author : Connor, Richard
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Energy development
ISBN : 9231000713
The United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) is hosted and led by UNESCO. WWAP brings together the work of 31 UN-Water Members as well as 37 Partners to publish the United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR) series. Under the theme Water for Sustainable Development, the WWDR 2015 has been prepared as a contribution from UN-Water to the discussions surrounding the post-2015 framework for global sustainable development. Highlighting water's unique and often complex role in achieving various sustainable development objectives, the WWDR 2015 is addressed to policy- and decision-makers inside and outside the water community, as well as to anyone with an interest in freshwater and its many life-giving benefits. The report sets an aspirational yet achievable vision for the future of water towards 2050 by describing how water supports healthy and prosperous human communities, maintains well functioning ecosystems and ecological services, and provides a cornerstone for short and long-term economic development. It provides an overview of the challenges, issues and trends in terms of water resources, their use and water-related services like water supply and sanitation. The report also offers, in a rigorous yet accessible manner, guidance about how to address these challenges and to seize the opportunities that sound water management provides in order to achieve and maintain economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Water resources development
ISBN :
Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Flood control
ISBN :
Author : Pennsylvania. Department of Environmental Resources. Bureau of Resources Programming
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Water resources development
ISBN :
